Why Black Americans Feel They Have No Allies After Trump’s Victory
Dr. King said, “The Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty amid a vast ocean of material prosperity.” His critique still applies
No man is an island,” the English poet John Donne wrote, arguing that “every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main.” And yet, such an analogy doesn’t seem to apply to Black Americans, as they’ve been uniquely targeted and discriminated against rather than embraced as part of t…
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